Editing List of Microsoft codenames (section)

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Microsoft codenames are given by [[Microsoft]] to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of [[Windows]] in particular) are of major significance to the [[Information Technology|IT]] community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions before the official release. Microsoft usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available. It is not uncommon for Microsoft to reuse [[codename]]s a few years after a previous usage has been abandoned.

There has been some suggestion that Microsoft may move towards defining the real name of their upcoming products earlier in the product development lifecycle to avoid needing product codenames.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blogs.seattletimes.com/brierdudley/2006/05/02/fun_with_microsoft_code_names_1/ | title=Fun with Microsoft code names | date=May 2, 2006 | access-date=2006-07-23 | first=Brier | last=Dudley | work=Brier Dudley's blog | publisher=The Seattle Times Company | archive-date=2014-02-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224025602/http://blogs.seattletimes.com/brierdudley/2006/05/02/fun_with_microsoft_code_names_1/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>